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"The Internet in Everyday Life" ed. by Barry Wellman, Caroline Haythornthwaite

This is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives. Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet.

Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world.

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Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area.

Studies are based on empirical data.

Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or fears about the future effects of the Internet.

Contents

The Virtual Community in the Real World

The Internet and the Network Society, by Manuel Castells

Part I - Moving the Internet out of Cyberspace

The Internet in Everyday Life: An Introduction

Part II - The Place of the Internet in Everyday Life

1. Days and Nights on the Internet

2. The Global Villagers: Comparing Internet Users and Uses Around the World

3. Syntopia: Access, Civic Involvement, and Social Interaction on the Net

4. Digital Living: The Impact (or Otherwise) of the Internet on Everyday British Life

5. The Changing Digital Divide in Germany

6. Doing Social Science Research Online

Part III - Finding Time for the Internet

7. Internet Use, Interpersonal Relations, and Sociability: A Time Diary Study

8. The Internet and Other Uses of Time

9. Everyday Communication Patters of Heavy and Light Email Users

Part IV - The Internet in the Community

10. Capitalizing on the Net: Social Contact, Civic Engagement, and Sense of Communit

11. The Impact of Community Computer Networks on Social Capital and Community Involvement in Blacksburg

12. The Not So Global Village of Netville

13. Email, Gender, and Personal Relationships

14. Belonging in Geographic, Ethnic and Internet Spaces

Part V - The Internet at School, Work, and Home

15. Bringing the Internet Home: Adult Distance Learners and Their Internet, Home, and Work Worlds

16. Where Home is the Office: The New Form of Flexible Work

17. Kerala Connections: Will the Internet Affect Science in Developing Areas?

18. Social Support for Japanese Mothers Online and Offline

19. Experience and Trust in Online Shopping

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